.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a battle between pair of widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the typical storytelling of vallenato via his modern songs..